'Azithromycin – a common antibiotic for treating respiratory infections – was used for Covid-19 treatment earlier in the epidemic. The drug has long been one of several first-line treatments prescribed to treat gonorrhea, which is also a bacterial infection. And over the past five years, the proportion of gonorrhea infections that were resistant to the antibiotic increased sevenfold. 'Such a situation can fuel emergence of resistance in gonorrhea including gonorrhea superbug (super gonorrhea) or gonorrhea with high level resistance to current antibiotics recommended to treat it,' they added, in comments to The Sun. Importantly, neither the WHO nor the CDC has released data documenting the rise of gonorrhea or super gonorrhea during the pandemic to-date.

Source: Daily Mail December 29, 2020 00:09 UTC